Celebrations

Crescent Place Assisted Living teams up with Becky Jew, project manager of Project Linus, to make blankets for Shelby County children. Displaying one of the blankets were (back row from left) Goldie Strong, Ann McAnear, Margaret Wilborn, Bobbye McCarthy; and (front row) Mary Jane Smith and Carolyn Warner.

Judy Fleming of Shelbyville and Randall Fleming of Mims, Fla., announce the engagement of their daughter, Lauren Ashley Fleming, to Darrell Ray Tindle Jr. He is the son of Darrell Tindle of Shelbyville and the late Lori Tindle.

She is employed by the Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative in Shelbyville, and he is employed by Dana Corporation in Louisville.

The wedding will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 18, 2012, on a private farm.

Five generations of the Wilson family gathered recently for a photograph. Jenny Mae Wilson (front row) of Louisville, the great-great grandmother, is 100 years old, and with her are (back row, from left) Frieda Bohannon, grandmother, Elizabeth Williams, great grandmother, and Chandra Roberts, holding her son, James “Mekhi” Allen, all of Shelbyville.

Amber Green and Edward Higgins Jr. of Shelbyville announce the birth of their first child, a daughter, on June 22, 2012, at Baptist Hospital East in Louisville. She has been named Kylee Marie Higgins.

Grandparents are Robert and Beth Green and Edward and Florenia Higgins, all of Shelbyville. Great-grandparents are Robert and Betty Carter and Robert and Joyce Green, all of Shelbyville, the late Arite May and Lee White and Sarah Higgins and James Higgins.

Billy and Heather Richardson of Bagdad announce the engagement of their daughter, Kathy Jo Richardson of Bagdad, to Jesse William Bardis of Pleasureville. He is the son of Phil and Pam Bardis of Pleasureville.

The wedding will take place at 6 p.m. Aug. 25, 2012, atCropper Baptist Church.

Gayle L. and Lois Milton Marston celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on July 18, 2012, during an event hosted by their four children, Barry L. Marston of Shelbyville, Pamela Marston Aldridge of Shelbyville, Michael K. Marston of Bagdad and Robert S. Marston of Borden, Ind. along with their respective spouses, at Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville

The couple was married in 1952 at Graefenburg Baptist Church by the Rev. Bob Pender.

The Marstons reside in Shelby County and have seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

James C. Hardy Jr. will celebrate his 90th birthday on Sunday with a family gathering at his daughter’s home. He is both a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, where he served with the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater. He is also a long-standing Mason and was very active in the Shawnee Lodge in Louisville until recently. Hardy currently resides at Crestview Nursing Home.